UNIX tape duplicator request

Van Cleef Henry H vancleef at iastate.edu
Wed Mar 27 10:56:13 AEST 1991


In article <26364 at adm.brl.mil> GED%wufpak.prime.com at relay.cs.net (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
>
>Hello UNIX literate from one who is not!
>
>I have a need and hopefully someone out there has a solution.
>
>The problem:  The need to duplicate UNIX software on 60 MB data
>cartridges.  I have a Prime EXL320 CPU which runs System 5 Version 3.1.2
>UNIX.  I can (I have the Hardware) configure two 60 MB tape drives on
>the same SCSI chain, if necessary.  (This would allow me to theoretically
>do a tape-to-tape copy.)  If it is just as easy to do a
>tape-to-disk-to-tape then ok also.  I want to DUPLICATE exactly the data
>from the source tape to a blank tape so that they are functionally
>identical.
>
Take a look at the dd command.  The man page will tell you how to 
set it up.  

-- 



More information about the Comp.unix.questions mailing list